Excerpt from this Substack post: https://nickrafter.substack.com/p/the-rent-may-always-be-too-damn-high
It's the economy stupid. Trump won on the economy. Mamdani won on the economy.
this post was submitted on 23 Aug 2026
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I legitimately believe that a winning strategy for the left is reverse psychology.
Loudly announce being "socialist" and just promote bad, or even just existing ideas claiming "we can't let the Conservatives prevent us from x".
The run your real candidates on "anti socialist" platforms
Mind fucking, rhetorical tricks, and newspeak are a considerable part of what got us into this mess. Socialism as a political and economic philosophy is a great starting point for undoing the damage wrought by hierarchical domination, we ought to be up front and honest about what it means. Let the socialists define it on their terms, and then put their money where their mouth is when the time comes
Go MAGA, go broke!
Gas prices are up! VOTE WITH YOUR WALLET
It's not reverse psychology, it's being for the People. Democrat leadership works for their corporate owners, a lot of the same one that equally fund Republicans. That's the difference between them and Mamdani.
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fleecing the dumb. just happy for the attention.
This is cherry picked as fuck. They'd rather call their voters stupid (they do it regularly) then admit they are losing them. Obviously conservatives voted wrong because they were tricked by their feeble dumb brains not because Mayor Mamdani had a better platform.
They sure found an interesting way to square Fox News propaganda with Mamdani's campaign promises.
always have been
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everyone is braindead. it's by design.
if you're even reading this, you're in the top 10% of american minds, and you probably skim the post for sensationalist and/or opinion affirming details.
Bro if you know what the fediverse is youre probably in the top 2% of intelligence in the US
Alright that's bordering the circle-jerk territory. Let's end it on a humble quote.
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Any text based platform is not going to be representative. Many people don't read well, and don't have the ability to communicate well in writing.
That is disappointing for me. I suck at talking, and often forget the finer details of a verbal discussion.
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I mean, its not dumb. From their information sphere, this would make a lot of sense.
Its literally what Trump railed about, what they were bombarded with, which he said because it was popular. Of course theyre gonna vote for someone who says the same things.
Many have noted that Trump's rhetoric basically burned down US conservative ethos, and this is the fallout in action. Not that he cares; Trump couldnt care less about the Republican party beyond the benefit to him, which he is quite explicit about.
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Voters are dumb, welcome to democracy. But this should mean it will not be hard to win over their votes.